[weinzierl]

I was thinking of that as well. I wonder what the world would look like if the whole XHTML angle would have been a success. While it certainly had its flaws, there were definitely some interesting ideas.

Besides XPointer and its precise addressing I used to be very fascinated about more generic link types. I don't remember the spec (was it XLink?) but there was one where source, target and the location where the link was specified were independent. A link could also have multiple ends.

So you could create a personal document that linked a HN comment to two different sentences in a Wikipedia page for example.